Documents / Official release
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, part of file 62-HQ-83894, gathers flying saucer correspondence and memoranda mostly from 1952, with some from 1954. It includes a Savannah River Plant sighting teletype, Hoover replies that send public letters on to the Air Force, a San Diego report on Borderland Sciences, and a laboratory exam of the scoutmaster Desvergers' cap that found no residue. It also covers instructions to refer disc reports to OSI and a 1954 Cincinnati matter involving Truman Bethurum.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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Your letter dated October 6 , 1952, has been
received.
You will per haps recall being advised at the
time of your visit to this Bureau that the matter discussed
was not within the jurisdiction of the FBI. However, in
view of your imminent depar ture from ~ashington the infor
mat ion was accepted fo r trans mittal to the appropriate
agency, which was to contact you if interested.
Full details we r e made available at that time to 01
the Department of the Ai r Force for evaluation and consider C
ation . In the absence of some arrangement between you and
the Air Force, your further use of t he pertinent facts is ,
of course, a matter fo r your own determination.
Sincerely yours,
John Edga r Hoover
Director
NOTE OJI YELLOW:
Bulet to OSI, Air Force , dated 5-7- 52 transmitted data
furnished by Eekhout to the Bureau 5- 5- 52 concer ning his ideas
as to plans .for a workable flying disc . Eekhout was informed
t hat .further contact with him, if any, would come from the
interested Government agency rather than the Rureau . No mention
was made of his keeping the facts secre-t pending a reply from
the Bureau or the Air Force . {62- 83894-273)
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Eekhout : Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.